Vermont Economy at a Glance

FY12 Budget Shortfall: $176 million, or 14%
- One Family's Share: $1,132
Population: 621,760 Unemployment Rate: 6.2% Poverty Rate: 9.4%
Median Household Income: $50,619
Potential Public Revenue from tax on natural resource extraction: $1,2 Billion / year
- One Family's Share: $7,720 yearly
- Currently collected by corporations tax-free
Cumulative Afghan & Iraq War Cost to Vermont:
- $1,724,493,495 ...Not counting the cost of the illegal war in Libya!
- One Family's Share: $11,904

Full Documentation on the Cost of War to Vermont families courtesy of CostOfWar.com.

VERMONT SENATE TO VOTE ON VT YANKEE

Feb 162010

Vermont Yankee Radioactive Plume

This week, Peter Shumlin, President Pro Tem of the Vermont State Senate, announced that the Senate will vote on whether Vermont Yankee should be closed on schedule.

The first vote will be this week and the final vote will be next week! After years of work by thousands of Vermonters, this is it!

Click here to send a message to your Senator.

Some recent news:

Burlington Free Press – Douglas fed up with Vermont Yankee

Time Argus – Douglas wants lawmakers to put off vote on Yankee

New York Times – Radiation Levels Cloud Vermont Reactor’s Fate

Vermont Yankee Cooling Tower Collapse

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Green Blooded: Vermont at a Crossroad from Teo Žagar on Vimeo.
Produced by Christopher Piana & Teo Žagar, Music by Bow Thayer.
to be released in 2012 by Vermont filmmakers Teo Žagar & Christopher Piana
of Longshot Productions, and is sponsored by Rural Vermont, “activating, advocating and educating for living soils, thriving farms & healthy communities”.

Žagar’s original film about Slovenian Independence, Ten Days Ten Years was shown
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